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According to Odaily Odaily, former Tether Chief Investment Officer Richard Heathcote plans to sell a portion of his Tether stake, currently holding approximately 1.26%. The report states that PJT Partners is handling the secondary equity sale and is currently in talks with potential buyers. (The Block)
Anastasia Golovina, a former member of the Chainlink team, has joined Hyperliquid as Chief Communications Officer.
PANews reported on July 7 that Anastasia Golovina, a former member of the Chainlink communications team, has joined Hyperliquid as Chief Communications Officer. Golovina stated that she has over eight years of experience in the crypto industry.
Warsh appointed former Bank of England Governor Mervyn King to co-chair the Federal Reserve's new communications task force.
According to Mars Finance, on July 1, market sources reported that Federal Reserve Chairman Warsh appointed former Bank of England Governor Mervyn King to co-chair the Fed's new communications task force.
Tencent announced that Tian Yonglong, a former researcher at OpenAI, has joined the company to participate in the development of VLM.
According to sources at Tencent, Yonglong Tian, a former researcher at OpenAI, has recently joined Tencent's Large Language Model Department and will participate in the research and development of VLM (Visual Language Model). This marks another instance of Tencent poaching talent from OpenAI. On December 17th last year, Tencent announced an upgrade to its large model R&D architecture, establishing the AI Infra Department, AI Data Department, and Data Computing Platform Department. Former OpenAI senior researcher Yao Shunyu was appointed as the Chief AI Scientist in the "CEO/President's Office" (reporting to Martin Lau), and concurrently served as the head of the AI Infra Department and the Large Language Model Department (reporting to Lu Shan). This announcement garnered widespread attention on social media. (The Paper)
Former OpenAI Chinese researcher Tian Yonglong joins Tencent Hunyuan team
According to Beating's monitoring, Tian Yonglong, a former member of the OpenAI technical team, has confirmed joining Tencent's Hunyuan team and will participate in the research and development of visual language models. Tian Yonglong graduated from Tsinghua University with a bachelor's degree and received his Ph.D. from MIT. He previously served as a senior research scientist at Google Research and Google DeepMind, primarily researching computer vision and generative models. This is another top-tier Chinese AI researcher recruited by Tencent Hunyuan, following the recruitment of Chief AI Scientist Yao Shunyu last December. Tencent recently launched the official version of the Hunyuan Hy3 model, led by Yao Shunyu, under an open-source license. With Tian Yonglong's addition, Tencent Hunyuan's talent pool in multimodal and visual model development will be further strengthened.
Former Tether CIO seeks to sell stake in stablecoin issuer.
According to Mars Finance, former Tether Chief Investment Officer Richard Heathcote plans to sell a portion of his 1.26% stake. Tether's USDT accounts for approximately 59% of the stablecoin market.